Professor Elizabeth Goldring, FSA FRHistS (MA, MPhil, PhD Yale) Honorary Professor
My research interests are interdisciplinary, often straddling the boundaries between art, literature, and history. Areas of particular expertise include: Tudor painting; 16th- and 17th- century court culture; England and the Continental Renaissance; portraiture and biography; and the reception of Tudor art and literature from the 17th century to the present. I am a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, a Member of the Burlington Magazine's Consultative Committee, and a Member of the Athenaeum's Works of Art Committee. I regularly contribute long-form pieces on art to , as well as reviewing new books for , , , and , among other publications.
My latest book, , was published last year by the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art/Yale Press. It was selected as a 'Book of the Year' for 2025 by The Times, The Daily Telegraph, The Spectator, The New Statesman, Country Life, The Tablet, The New World, Church Times, and Engelsberg Ideas. Other recent projects include an exhibition of Elizabethan and Jacobean portraits, Philip Mould & Co., London, 19 November - 19 December 2025), for which I served both as Specialist Consultant Advisor and as co-author of the accompanying catalogue, published by Yale Press in conjunction with Paul Holberton Publishing.
Virtually all of my publications are rooted in new archival or object-based discoveries. My book (PMC/Yale, 2019) won the and was short-listed for three other major awards: the William M. B. Berger Prize for British Art History, the and the Other books include (PMC/Yale, 2014), which won the ; and, as General Editor, (Oxford, 2014), which won the , the , and was named a TLS 'Book of the Year'.
I am committed to bringing the past to life for the widest possible audience. I have discussed my research in interviews with The Guardian, The Times, The Daily Telegraph, The Independent, Country Life, Vanity Fair, and BBC History Magazine, among other publications; and on radio and television programmes such as the Today Programme (Radio 4), (Radio 4), (Radio 4), (Radio 3),On This Day in History (Times Radio), , (BBC1), (BBC4), and
Visit and follow me on Instagram @elizabeth.goldring for details of upcoming events relating to my latest book, Holbein: Renaissance Master, and other news.
e-mail: e.goldring@warwick.ac.uk
Instagram: @elizabeth.goldring
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Chapters in Books: /fac/arts/ren/centrestaff/elizabethgoldring/chaptersinbooks
Book and Exhibition Reviews: /fac/arts/ren/centrestaff/elizabethgoldring/reviews/
Articles: /fac/arts/ren/centrestaff/elizabethgoldring/articles/
Editions of sixteenth and seventeenth-century texts: /fac/arts/ren/centrestaff/elizabethgoldring/editions
Encyclopaedia and dictionary entries: /fac/arts/ren/centrestaff/elizabethgoldring/encyclopaedia
Awards (inc. prizes, grants, fellowships): /fac/arts/ren/centrestaff/elizabethgoldring/awards/
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Museum & Heritage work: /fac/arts/ren/centrestaff/elizabethgoldring/museumheritage
Miscellaneous: /fac/arts/ren/centrestaff/elizabethgoldring/misc